Inducted
2010
Degrees
- BS, aerospace engineering, WVU 1991.
- MS, aerospace engineering, Purdue University, 1993.
- PhD, Virginia Tech, 1998
David Doman graduated magna cum laude from WVU with a BSAE in 1991. He went on to earn an MS in aeronautics and astronautics from Purdue in 1993, and a PhD from Virginia Tech in 1998. His dissertation topic was the development of a fixed order modified optimal control model of human operator response. From 1991 to 1998 he was also employed at the Wright Laboratory of the U.S. Air Force as a research aerospace engineer. In this post, he focused on developing in-depth knowledge of aircraft controls and control theory, system identification and optimization methods. He published numerous technical papers and Air Force technical reports during this time.
In 1998, Doman was promoted to senior aerospace engineer at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. He is responsible for more than $6 million in research, development and flight demonstration programs, among which is the first-ever demonstration of a fault tolerant autonomous landing system for a reusable launch vehicle. Doman has published more than 120 papers and technical reports and has two U.S. patents. He is serving his third term as Editor for the Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics.
In 2000, Doman was the co-recipient of the Courtland D. Perkins Award, and in 2003 he was co-recipient of the General Benjamin D. Foulois Award, the top technical award in the directorate, for his contributions to Integrated Adaptive Guidance and Control. In 2008, Doman was awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society Silver Medal.
Currently, Dorman serves as the technical area leader for the micro air vehicle dynamics and control group. He is the principle investigator for a AFOSR research program on flight control for biomimetic micro air vehicles.
Dr. David B. Doman is a Principal Aerospace Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Director of the Control Science Center in the Aerospace Systems Directorate. Dr. Doman graduated magna cum laude from West Virginia University in 1991 with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering. He was a 1991 recipient of the WVU College of Engineering Rufus A. West Award. He later earned an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1998.
He has been the author or co-author of over 190 widely cited scholarly publications including journal articles, technical papers, reports, and book chapters. He has also been awarded 8 U.S. patents and has an additional 3 patents pending. He served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics for 9 years and currently serves on its advisory board. He also serves as a member of the Advisory Committee for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at WVU. He is a Past Chair of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Technical Committee. In 2000, Dr. Doman was the co-recipient of the Dr. Courtland D. Perkins Award for work on fault tolerant control of reusable launch vehicles.
He is a three-time co-recipient of the General Benjamin D. Foulois Award, the top technical award in the Aerospace Systems Directorate, for contributions to the area of integrated adaptive guidance and control (2003), for work on dynamics and control of micro air vehicles (2010), and for contributions to precision ballistic airdrop (2016). In 2012, he was the co-recipient of the Aerospace Systems Directorate S.D. Heron Award and received the Air Force Civilian Achievement Award for contributions to the area of control allocation.
In 2008, Dr. Doman was awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society Silver Medal for his work on control-oriented modeling for air-breathing hypersonic vehicles. In 2011, he received the highest award presented by the U.S. Air Force for basic research, the John L. McLucas Award, for contributions to the science of dynamics and control of micro air vehicles. He received a D.Sc. (Hon. Causa) from WVU in 2016. Dr. Doman is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2012), a Fellow of the Air Force Research Laboratory (2013), and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2016).